Can there be middle ground on this? Do we have to get rid of all technology or can we take a step or two back and let the lessons learned be our guide?

I'm just not sure living in caves; with our off-spring dying from ailments they could be cured of, is a format for human-living. We need to live with nature and our fellow earth-citizens(critters). I'm not convinced throwing out all technogy will help either people or the earth.

All three energies on the right side are inversely proportional to one another.

When we do hard physical work or hard mental work or a combination of physical work and mental work almost all energy is used up in doing work.

When we stop physical work and mental work, the unused energy is experienced as suffering/ anxiety/ restlessness/ discomfort. This suffering is so intense - so unbearable - that most people cannot stop physical activity and mental activity simultaneously for even 2 minutes - they can stop work/activity only under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

There is no higher purpose behind work.

People do not work because they want to work. People do not work for their family. People do not work for their nation. People do not work for any reason.

People work because they cannot stop working.

It does not matter what kind of work we do - whether it is physical work or any kind of mental work. As soon as we stop working we suffer from restlessness, anxiety, uneasiness and discomfort.

In Yoga and Meditation the goal is to stop Physical Activity and Mental Activity simultaneously - and then transform the subjective-experience of restlessness/ anxiety/ suffering into peace. This requires ability and years of effort. A large number of people in the east have tried to do this but very few have succeeded - maybe a few hundred or a few thousand in the entire history. Stopping work is not an option for most people living in this world.

Today 50% of world population - 3 bilion people are living in cities. These people cannot do farming in cities. Most of the people living in cities are engaged in unnecessary work - making things, buying things and selling things - leading to an endless cycle of unnecessary and destructive work.

Our small planet which is only 40,000 km in circumference cannot sustain a city-based industrial society.

Ahhh...... no real answers just more ranting. Figures.No nice way to say we need to kill off millions of people, destroy the civilization we have built and revert to breaking our backs hoeing a few rows of veggies. So we can walk to the village tomorrow to trade some of our cabbages for some salt so we can preserve the rest of our cabbages.

Ahhh...... no real answers just more ranting. Figures.No nice way to say we need to kill off millions of people, destroy the civilization we have built and revert to breaking our backs hoeing a few rows of veggies. So we can walk to the village tomorrow to trade some of our cabbages for some salt so we can preserve the rest of our cabbages.

What is your solution?

consume, consume, consume ..... and destroy the ecosystems.

Continue with the Great American Dream which has turned into a Nightmare for the planet - 5% of world population consuming 40% of resources.

Is the solution going to come from the president of the country who was recently asked to reduce consumption to save ecosystems and he replied :